This is an analysis of the poem A Paumanok Picture that begins with:
TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
Ten fishermen waiting--they discover a thick school of mossbonkers--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101111 11001010100110100 11011010010 0110111111010100 10100100 010101010111101 1001001011101101 00101111 01101101010010 1010101110110010 01110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
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